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...Crimson pounded out 19 hits, eight of them for extra bases, while pitchers John Scott and Jim McCandlish held the Bruins fairly well in check. First baseman Joe O'Donnell, Harvard's leading hitter, did the most damage. He went five for seven from the plate, batted in five runs and socked one gigantic homer over the center-field fence of the Bruins' ballpark...
Penn's only reliable hitter is outfielder Chuck Shields, whose average is a shade above .200. First baseman Bruce Molloy has the power to belt the long ball, but he is inconsistent at the plate. The Quakers' pitching has been disastrous this spring...
Skip Falcone had caught a line drive and scooped the ball to shortstop Tom Bilodeau at second for a double play. But Bilodeau, trying to catch Dartmouth's Dick Horton off first base, threw the ball over first baseman Joe O'Cornell's head. As O'Connell turned to chase the ball and Horton started toward second base, a major collision occurred...
With a team batting average of 200 the Indian lineup does not throw rival pitchers into paroxysms of terror. But Dartmouth does have three usually re-unable batters: Second baseman Mickey Beard, who has a mark of 348; out fielder Ken McGruther and cather Dick Horton, both of whom are hitting...
Wildness got Scott into another jam in the ninth. He walked Cornell catcher Tom Guise to start the inning and wild pitched him to second. After striking out first baseman Joe Piperato, Scott walked pinchhitter Mike Riff to put men on first and second with one out. But the next batter fouled to O'Donnell and Houston ended the game by going to his knees to snare left fielder Jim Purcell's windblown foul popup...